Blue Note Records has released Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs’, a never-before-issued live recording of jazz legends McCoy Tyner and Joe Henderson leading a stellar quartet with bassist Henry Grimes and drummer Jack DeJohnette at the hallowed lost NYC jazz shrine, Slugs' Saloon, in 1966. The release was produced by Zev Feldman with Jack and Lydia DeJohnette, and is available now on 2-LP, 2-CD, and digital formats. Tyner and Henderson had been forging a strong... Read More

The box set arrived about an hour ago and I got right on it and shot this box opening video. Honestly, more interesting is the second embedded video with Kevin Reeves and Pat Kraus showing the tapes and the cutting process along with some of the ideas that went into the new cuts. The tape box notes show that bass was seriously cut for the original records as was some top end splashy cymbal stuff.What wasn't clear from the video is what they did for these new... Read More

November 13, 2024—Boston-based Andover Audio is proud to announce the launch of the SpinBase 2, the next evolution of its award-winning turntable-speaker system (the turntable is not included). Maintaining the clean, classic design of the original SpinBase, the new model dials up the aesthetic with heathered fabric wrap and Andover’s iconic main control knob. This compact and clever design blends convenience with high-quality sound and ease of setup and use,... Read More

Los Angeles, CA (November 13, 2024)—Craft Recordings is proud to unveil the next installment in its acclaimed Small Batch series—a meticulously crafted reissue of Bill Evans Trio’s final studio LP, Explorations. Arriving December 13, Explorations marks the series’ seventh installment, which has previously spotlighted jazz luminaries such as John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. Strictly limited to 2,500 pressings worldwide and available to pre-order today,... Read More

November 13th, 2024 – Analogue Productions, the world leader in high quality vinyl production, is thrilled to announce the December 13 release of Birth of the Blue, a collection documenting the transformative first session in 1958 by the same band that would go on to record Kind of Blue - the one of the greatest and greatest-selling jazz album of all time - the following year. Featuring Davis’ legendary sextet - John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Paul... Read More

Blue Note Records has announced the launch of the Tone Poet Society, a new subscription service dedicated to the legendary jazz label’s Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series. Blue Note has also announced the 2025 line-up of the acclaimed series which is produced by the “Tone Poet” Joe Harley and features definitive all-analog, 180g audiophile vinyl reissues that are mastered from the original master tapes by Kevin Gray of Cohearent Audio, manufactured at RTI, and... Read More

By now everyone reading this knows the story of Bob Ludwig's first cut of Led Zeppelin II. Bob put everything on the tape in the grooves and Atlantic released it. The story goes a copy went to Ahmet Ertegun's niece and it wouldn't play on her kiddie phonograph. Fearing it wouldn't play on the average teenagers's turntable either, Atlantic issued a recall and it was re-cut by someone at Atlantic Studios with bass attenuated and dynamics... Read More

Good design rests upon - and often wrestles with - the timeless ideals of form vs. function. It’s an age old debate that grapples between the way an item actually works against the way it looks. Architecture, automotive design, and - of course - the hifi industry all create products bragging fantastic looks, but do they always excel at doing the thing that they were designed to do?Once upon a time, during a period between newsprint and television - and way way before... Read More

WFMU's annual and always fabulous record fair returns this year to the Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan after a one year detour to the Knock Down Center in Maspeth, Queens where parking was absolutely impossible and public transportation is poor (nice space for a record fair "tho" and a decent concert venue too).The Metro Pavilion's address is 125 West 18th Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues. Visit the FMU website for more details.Hours:Friday:... Read More

Patrick Leonard's acclaimed album It All Comes Down to Mood will now be distributed by Acoustic Sounds. Record retailers who tried to re-order the record from the previous distributor were told 'we're out" rather than "there's a new distributor," which only compounded the issues that lead to the distribution change.The album has so far received rave reviews in Goldmine and Germany's MINT Magazine, plus another in the next issue... Read More

Just in from Intervention Records:

It is with a heavy heart that we share the devastating news that our longtime friend and musical inspiration, Matthew Sweet, suffered a debilitating stroke this past week while on tour in Toronto. What was meant to be a national celebration of his music has been tragically interrupted by this unforeseen event, forcing Matthew off the road and into a long and uncertain path to recovery.

Mr. Lichtenegger's comment:"You mentioned that you were able to hear some resonances on the armtube. The AS version's aluminum tube design has typical aluminium resonance behaviour. Actually, the more sophisticated arm is the CA version of the premium series— the one piece carbon version).‎"This one is a carbon/aluminum design and so is way better damped than either a solely aluminum or solely carbon fiber. This construction and conical shape... Read More

Friday, October 4 – Today marks the release of "Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision" by Experience Hendrix, L.L.C. in partnership with Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment. This deluxe box set available on 3CD/1 Blu-ray, or 5LP/1 Blu-ray includes the feature-length documentary of the same name, plus 39 tracks (38 previously unreleased) that were recorded by the new-look Jimi Hendrix Experience (Billy Cox on bass, Mitch... Read More

"The Doors is 60 years old. Jim and Ray are gone, Densmore and Krieger are still with us and the group's power, led by Jim Morrison's grip on the imaginations of repeat generations of alienated youth, continues full strength. Rhino and Doors management led by Jeff Jampol, CEO of JAM Management plan a 2025 year long celebration starting with an all new AAA edition of a very familiar looking faux lizardskin box set that was originally issued in 2008... Read More

Released in 1974, 50 years ago, Neil's 5th studio album, and the one following Harvest is among his most revered and musically enduring albums. Musicians on the album included Crazy Horse's rhythm section Billy Talbot (bass) and Ralph Molina (drums), along with other key players Ben Keith, Tim Drummond, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Rusty Kershaw, David Crosby, Graham Nash and George Whitsell (The Rockets). Sessions were held at Young’s Broken Arrow Ranch in... Read More

The Domino website characterizes these two albums as "beloved", but when they were first released no one paid them much attention. They are costly on Discogs mostly because so few copies were manufactured. Most copies you'll find either have "cut out" cut corners or are promo copies discarded by foolish people.At the time John Cale was a Warner Brothers employee, as I recall, an "A&R Man", tasked with finding and signing new... Read More

‘The Beatles: 1964 U.S. Albums In Mono’ Spotlights Seven AlbumsReleased in America Between January 1964 & March 1965;180-gram Vinyl LPs Analog Cut from the Original Mono MastersLondon - September 12, 2024 – Originally compiled for U.S. release between January 1964 and March 1965 by Capitol Records and United Artists, seven Beatles albums have been analog cut for 180-gram audiophile vinyl from their original mono master tapes for global release on November 22 by... Read More

In 1975, Brian Eno released Discreet Music, his first “conscious” ambient album. On the back cover, he wrote an essay that starts, “Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little or no intervention on my part.” With an accompanying technical graph, he describes side A’s 32-minute title composition—a few looping melodies that alternate in and... Read More

Another event for New York/NJ readers: on Saturday September 14th from 3:00-7:00PM VPI is hosting a charity event to benefit The Tunnel to Towers Foundation (set up following the 9/11 attack to benefit Firefighters and other first responders). The event host is Tracking Angle contributing writer JJ French lead guitarist of Twisted Sister For: Food, Drink, Live Music …and $500,000 of HiFi Gear!Prizes, Raffles and Auctions Event Donation is $20 HiFi Cares will feature a... Read More